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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Gay Talese

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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

Adam Johnson

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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Imelda Staunton

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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Peter Bichsel

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

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I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Eudora Welty

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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

James Altucher

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I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.

Alan Smith

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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

Jose Saramago

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Robert Kennedy

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I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

America Ferrera

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A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Diane Johnson

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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Meryl Streep

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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Edith Sitwell

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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I don't care! This is my life. I can't have anybody messing with my life. I just want to be Gerry Cooney, doing what I want to do. I want to be what I am. A fighter.

Gerry Cooney

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In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Chow Yun-Fat

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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

Edmund White

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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

Indira Gandhi

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